Christmas from Poland

Our peers from Swidnick want to wish us a Merry Christmas with these words and this picture!!!

May joy and happiness snow on you,

may the bells jingle for you, and
may Santa be extra good to you!

Merry Christmas!

eTwinning Project Launched

Finally our eTwinning project has been launched!!! During this week the students involved in the project will start to work on it, sending an e-mail to their Polish peers with a Christmas Greeting.


To break the ice, though, this morning we have took a photo to send to Poland. Here you have it!

Festivals and celebrations around the world

After many time thinking of how to motivate you to study more English and improve your ICT skills, we have decided to be involved into a project together with a Polish school into the eTwinning programme. The students who are going to take part in it are volunteers from 2nd, 3rd and 4th ESO. 

The project, which is supposed to begin in a few days, is called Festivals and celebrations around the world, and its aim is learning about the festivities and holidays celebrated in Spain, Poland and other parts of the world; and promoting cultural and linguistic diversity.

Our twinned school is called Zespół Szkół nr 2 - Gimnazjum nr 3 im. Noblistów Polskich w Świdniku, and it is in Świdnik, a Polish city that you can situate at this map of Poland:

eTwinning

Collaborative School Projects in Europe

eTwinning is an educational programme which promotes and offers tools for setting up joint educational projects in the Internet among two or more educational institutions in different European countries, based on cooperative work, the use of ICTs and the realization of the potential of the European dimension in education.

eTwinning began in 2005 as part of the European Union eLearning program for the integration of the new information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the education and training systems existing in Europe. It is currently a measure which accompanies the action of the Comenius programme within the Lifelong Learning Programme which started in January 2007 and will finish its present phase in 2013. The eTwinning platform unites at present approximately 90,000 teachers registered in Europe  (more than 8,300 of whom are Spanish) and about 5,000 active projects (data from March 2010).

Joint school projects, which are more and more frequent in Europe, motivate the students from different countries to cooperate together. They learn from other cultures while they are practising skills related to the new technologies and foreign languages and develop contents from any of the subjects in the study programme.

The teachers have the opportunity to meet other European teachers and exchange ideas, which helps them to improve their own teaching methods by comparing and applying different approaches, broaden the knowledge of a precise field or simply exchange information.

In 2010, the number of participating countries was 32, of which 5 do not belong to the European Union (EU): Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia (non EU), Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (non EU), France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hungary, Iceland (non EU), Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Malta, Norway (non EU), Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey (non EU) and United Kingdom.